At the moment I'm working on large numbers of the same files at both home and university and am transferring the two on one of those usb stick things (actually, i just use my camera's xd card, but that's irrelevant).
I'm constantly forgetting to write an important file to the usb stick because I'm in a hurry, or managing to overwrite a newer file with an old one. What I need is a program that enables me to just copy one directory over another one and compares the "modified" date: only overwriting files if the original file is older than the one being copied.
Can't you log into your home directory from home? I can log into mine using an FTP-link system (a web folder I think) and copy files to / from my uni drive
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Last edited by PhoeniX on Mon Jan 16, 2006 12:14 am, edited 3 times in total.
I have done in the past, but the files I'm dealing with are massive ammounts of high quality jpegs.
I can sweet talk the computer guy into letting me install pretty much anything on one of the computers, he's already installed fraps and taken the internet filter off it for me.
I had a bit of a search on google, and found a few things but they were bloatware crap; i'm looking for something nice and compact, it doesn't really seem like a difficult thing to do.
The problem with copying based off the the 'date modified' is that the date/time windows is currently set to can be off. Not the biggest problem but one that you should keep in mind. That is why lots of backup programs use the 'archive bit' to decide whether or not a file needs to be backed up. However, this raises its own problems if the program you use fails to set the bit and therfore the backup program fails to copy it.
Well, anyway. I use this program called Cobian Backup. Works for me.
[size=85]yea i've too been kind of thinking about maybe a new sig but sort of haven't come to quite a decision yet[/size]
destination, if file already exists, and is newer then overwrite, else if its older don't overwrite?
